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The article focuses on Great Brittan's Education Select Committee's session on left behind white working class students. Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, mentioned the impact of several factors in a community on the children's education and cited parental support and quality of houses people live in. Other panel of witnesses were Ed Vainker, executive of the Reach Foundation in Feltham, and Jonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust.

The article discusses that Education committee has gathered the evidence of views for inquiry into left behind White pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds doing worse than most other ethnic groups from Dr. Tony Sewell CBE, chairman of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities; Martyn Oliver, Commissioner, Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, and Professor Steve Strand, University of Oxford.

The article comments on the problem of child poverty in Great Britain. It mentions the inquiry by the House of Commons Education Select Committee into left behind white working class pupils in Great Britain. Labour member of parliament Ian Mearns stated several problems related to children coming to school who have not reached the developmental level that others have. It is noted that free school meals was an effective way of solving food poverty among children.

The article reports that the according to the National Education Opportunities Network report, higher education institutions need to set for proportion of poor white students in England.